Word: guests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that most observers took as another indication that he is already racing. Adlai Stevenson, continuing to insist that he has not decided whether to run, stepped out and made his first major political speech of the season. Averell Harriman, who has said that he is not running, was the guest of honor at a big political rally in his own back yard at Albany. At that rally Harry Truman, who said he was not ready to announce his choice, slyly intimated that he liked Ave better than he liked Adlai. With that, Averell Harriman loomed larger than ever...
Carnival in Albany. On the same day as Stevenson's speech, Averell Harriman was host to the first big political carnival of the season, a whooped-up "campaign workshop" in Albany for 1,700 Democrats running for local office in New York State this fall. Chief guest: Harry S. Truman. At least four times in the last six months, Truman has said he would support Stevenson in a second try for the presidency, but last week he changed his line...
...When the judges left the room to deliberate, she became quite vociferous, insisting to one and all that she would get her rights. Someone in the courtroom tried to quiet her, and pointed to Berman, implying that she should not make a scene in front of the American guest...
...County Durham, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Winthrop W. Aldrich, cheered on by an elite audience of British and American brass, officially opened newly restored Washington Old Hall, 800-year-old home of the ancestors of George Washington. He was suddenly confronted by a prim, grey-haired gatecrasher. The uninvited guest: Gary Lady Schuster, 88, widow of a titled physics professor. Her ticket of admission: a lineage chart showing her direct descent from John Washington, the first President's great-grandfather, who sailed to America in 1657. Offering a glad hand, Ambassador Aldrich glowed: "A Washington? Welcome home...
...Spanish Biscayan port of Gijón (pop. 110,000) was decked out in its fiesta best last week. Even its waterfront slums were bravely decorated with fish nets, crossed oars and ships' wheels laced with flowers. As the guest of honor, a smiling widow from Britain, entered a mean little square, she looked into the eyes of a blown-up photograph of her husband bearing the inscription: "To the Holy Virgin we pray: for us, many sardines; for the wizard who gave us penicillin, glory...